A surprise guilty plea by a former F-L-D-S member today. Leroy Steed telling a judge in Robert Lee this morning that he was pleading no-contest to two charges of bigamy and one of sexual assault on a child. Steed was immediately sentenced to seven years in prison on the bigamy counts and another seven on the child sexual assault charge. An additional charge of tampering with evidence was dismissed. Steed's plea came as the trial of former F-L-D-S President Fredrick Jessop was just getting under way. Steed becomes the tenth of twelve men in the sect to be prosecuted using evidence from the April 2008 state raid on the Yearning For Zion Ranch in Schleicher County.
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